25.4303, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation/USA

Wed Oct 29 21:14:29 UTC 2014

LINGUIST List: Vol-25-4303. Wed Oct 29 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.4303, Calls: General Ling, Historical Ling, Lang Documentation/USA

Moderators: Damir Cavar, Indiana U <damir at linguistlist.org>
            Malgorzata E. Cavar, Indiana U <gosia at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org
Anthony Aristar <aristar at linguistlist.org>
Helen Aristar-Dry <hdry at linguistlist.org>
Sara Couture, Indiana U <sara at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Do you want to donate to LINGUIST without spending an extra penny? Bookmark
the Amazon link for your country below; then use it whenever you buy from
Amazon!

USA: http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-20
Britain: http://www.amazon.co.uk/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-21
Germany: http://www.amazon.de/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistd-21
Japan: http://www.amazon.co.jp/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlist-22
Canada: http://www.amazon.ca/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistc-20
France: http://www.amazon.fr/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=linguistlistf-21

For more information on the LINGUIST Amazon store please visit our
FAQ at http://linguistlist.org/amazon-faq.cfm.

Editor for this issue: Anna White <awhite at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:14:14
From: Kayla Eisman [kaylaeisman at umail.ucsb.edu]
Subject: 18th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=25-4303.html&submissionid=35972977&topicid=3&msgnumber=1

Full Title: 18th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Short Title: WAIL2015 

Date: 08-May-2015 - 09-May-2015
Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Kayla Eisman
Meeting Email: wail.ucsb at gmail.com
Web Site: http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/nail/WAIL 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2015 

Meeting Description:

The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 18th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas. 

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this year will be Patience L. Epps (University of Texas, Austin).

Call for Papers:

Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references). 

Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance. 

Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system found at the address below:

 http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL2015

Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet access. Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title of your paper.

Send hard copy submissions to:	

Workshop on American Indigenous Languages 
Attn: Kayla Eisman or Morgan Sleeper
Department of Linguistics 
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 15, 2015 

Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 8, 2015.

For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, Kayla Eisman or Morgan Sleeper, at wail.ucsb at gmail.com or check out our website, http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/nail/WAIL .

----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-25-4303	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/